Commercial Law, Consumer Protection
Altria Group v. Good
Review Granted: 01-18-2008
Review of:
Date oral argument scheduled: 10-06-2008
Question presented: The question presented is whether state-law challenges to FTC-authorized statements regarding tar and nicotine yields in cigarette advertising are expressly or
impliedly pre-empted by federal law.
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Constitutional Law, Labor Law
Locke v. Karass
Review Granted: 02-19-2008
Review of:
Date oral argument scheduled: 10-06-2008
Question presented: May a state, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments,
condition continued public employment on the payment of agency fees for purposes
of financing a monopoly bargaining agent?s affiliates' litigation outside of a nonunion
employee's bargaining unit?
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Alternative Dispute Resolution, Civil Practice
Vaden v. Discover Bank
Review Granted: 03-17-2008
Review of:
Date oral argument scheduled: 10-06-2008
Question presented: 1. Whether a suit seeking to enforce a state-law arbitration obligation brought under
Section 4 of the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §4, "aris[es] under" federal law,
see 28 U.S.C. §1331, when the petition to compel itself raises no federal question
but the dispute sought to be arbitrated -- a dispute that the federal court is not asked
to and cannot reach -- involves federal law.
2. If so, whether a "completely preempted" state-law counterclaim in an underlying
state-court dispute can supply subject matter jurisdiction.
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Constitutional Law, Criminal Practice
Herring v. United States
Review Granted: 02-19-2008
Review of:
Date oral argument scheduled: 10-07-2008
Question presented: Whether the Fourth Amendment requires evidence found during a search incident
to an arrest to be suppressed when the arresting officer conducted the arrest and
search in sole reliance upon facially credible but erroneous information negligently
provided by another law enforcement agent.
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Constitutional Law, Criminal Practice
Arizona v. Gant
Review Granted: 02-25-2008
Review of:
Date oral argument scheduled: 10-07-2008
Question presented: Does the Fourth Amendment require law enforcement officers to demonstrate a threat to their safety or a need to preserve evidence related to the crime of arrest in order to justify a warrantless vehicular search incident to arrest conducted after the vehicle's recent occupants have been arrested and secured?
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Employment, Family Law
Kennedy v. Plan Administrator for DuPont Savings and Investment Plan
Review Granted: 02-19-2008
Review of:
Date oral argument scheduled: 10-07-2008
Question presented: Was the Fifth Circuit correct in concluding that ERISA's Qualified Domestic
Relations Order provision, 29 U.S.C. §1056(d)(3)(B)(i), is the only valid way a
divorcing spouse can waive her right to receive her ex-husband?s pension benefits
under ERISA?
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Environmental Law
Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council
Review Granted: 06-23-2008
Review of:
Date oral argument scheduled: 10-08-2008
Question presented: 1. Whether Council on Environmental Quality permissibly construed its own regulation in finding "emergency circumstances." 2. Whether, in any event, the preliminary injunction, based on a preliminary finding
that the Navy had not satisfied the National
Environmental Policy Act's procedural requirements, is inconsistent
with established equitable principles limiting discretionary injunctive relief.
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